Newborn Diapers?!?!

November 15, 2012

Yesterday someone gave me newborn diapers. And of course the overwhelming feeling should be, gee thanks that was nice. Instead I find myself in a state of disbelief. I’m going to have a newborn?!?! Seems a little dense on my part, after all I’m as big as a house and suffering from almost every unattractive symptom in the book!

Anyone who has ever been pregnant before can attest to the fact that while you are engulfed in the forty long weeks of pregnancy, it feels like it lasts forever. However, once you have that baby and are a little removed, it seems like being pregnant was such a blip in time. There have even been episodes where I have looked lovingly (much like the people I detest right now) at how I, dare I say, miss being pregnant!

It’s not like I have missed the sleepless nights, indigestion or not being able to see my toes. More it’s that I miss the feeling of bringing a new life in the world, the treatment you get from others and the excitement of having the impending new being in your life. Well isn’t that what a few newborn diapers present me at the current moment?

Yes, and I have to remember that this is all true. I’m in the final weeks of my final pregnancy with my final new addition to the family. That’s pretty huge. I get so caught up in my concerns, the logistics and just going through my days that I forget how special this time really is.

I suppose it will be easy once the baby is born to get caught up in it the same way. The first two times I have had a new baby have been the most exciting times of my life. The thrill of actually being face to face with this being that you have had a relationship in utero with for all these months is unlike anything else. Holding and kissing a new little thing that you love before you even really have the chance to know is a sensation like none other. Watching your family redefine itself, your kids bonding, your new baby blossoming…words really can’t express.

There will be, G-d willing, many other important, special things in our life to come but none quite on this level. So as my weeks of pregnancy wind down and the realities of actually having a newborn become more real, I’m going to try to think big picture. I can thank my gift of newborn diapers for that reality check 🙂

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